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OAKLAND – Steve Kerr might want to scream a vulgarity whenever he disagrees with an officials’ call. The Warriors’ coach might want to break a clipboard when he becomes upset with his players’ effort.

There is something else, though, that makes the normally calm and compassionate Kerr go into a rage. He goes ballistic whenever he sees his team commit silly turnovers.

“We had just done all of that work down there and we’re going to come down and throw an alley oop down the backboard? You can’t do that,” Kerr asked rhetorically. “That’s what I have to constantly enforce because the way we play we walk that line. The chaos is good. But at times it can bite us.”

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It did not bite the Warriors when they cemented a Game 1 win over the Clippers despite committing 21 turnovers. It did bite the Warriors when they squandered a 31-point lead in Game 2 after also recording 22 turnovers. So when the Kerr had a detailed film breakdown on Wednesday to prepare for Game 3 on Thursday in Los Angeles, plenty of those sequences featured the Warriors essentially handling the ball to the Clippers.

The clips mostly showed Durant, who had more turnovers (nine) than he did field-goal attempts (eight). Draymond made the second most cameos with six turnovers.

“I got to stop turning the ball over,” said Green, who also had four turnovers in Game 1. “That [stuff] is unacceptable.”

Kerr has always considered this habit unacceptable. He harps on it all the time during the regular season. Sometimes the Warriors listen. Sometimes they don’t. On one hand, the Warriors are aware that regular-season habits turn into postseason muscle memory. On the other hand, they believe those miscues serve as collateral damage to sure they can play at their most free wheeling and creative.

“It’s about picking and choosing your spots on when you want to be aggressive and take advantage in transition,” Durant said. “We have so many great shooters and we have so many guys that are unpredictable in transition running around and cutting. We just got to be patient handling the ball, especially myself.”

Durant rightfully argued that even when accounting for missed shots and turnovers, “we still should’ve won that basketball game.” They did not because the Warriors’ effort dissipated against a Clippers team that has overachieved with stellar bench play and scrappy defense.

Secondly, the Warriors showed relative improvement this season in turnovers (13.8) after displaying more inconsistency in that area in 2017-18 (15), 2016-17 (14.4), 2015-16 (14.9) and 2014-15 (14.1).

Still, Durant (six turnovers) and Green (five) became the primary culprits in the Warriors’ turnovers this season while Stephen Curry has trailed closely behind this season (four a game) and in the playoffs (four in both Game 1 and 2).

Durant has committed those while showing a balance between scoring and facilitating as well as playmaking at both methodical and fast paces.

“If we have a nice rebound and got some numbers out in transition, we should go push that and see if we can get something going quick,” Durant said. “But if we’re going with something to force the defense already being set then it’s basketball 101 and you’ll get a turnover most likely.”

Green has committed turnovers while trying to run the offense with the same force he runs defense. Kerr mostly likes when he does that. In Wednesday’s film session, though, he said that Green “plays with his hair on fire.” Kerr mostly likes that because it bolsters the team’s defensive intensity. He wants Green to temper that on offense, though, because it just leads to lost possessions.

“It’s just a little wanting to make something happen so bad,” Green said. “But you have to settle down and take whatever is there. You can’t always make something happen. Sometimes you can. Sometimes you have to let it come to you.”

And if the Warriors do that, perhaps their coach will feel much happier on the sideline. He certainly was not during Game 2.

“I was pissed,” Kerr said. “I was furious, and that will happen [in Game 3], too.”